The purpose of this class is to provide educators with a variety of educational, practical, cultural or historical experiences outside of their regular classroom while enjoying themselves on vacation. As educators we are too busy sometimes to take professional development. This is an opportunity to gain valuable experiences while on your trip that you can apply to your students to enhance their learning of a subject, unit or lesson plan. More than ever, our students are visual learners who need to see what we are talking about to reinforce our classroom instruction. Teaching Beyond the Textbook E-Adventure is designed to help teachers understand how these sites can be beneficial to our students, and to make sure that they are familiar with real life experiences all while earning 3 nationally accredited graduate credits.

At the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

• Assess the connection between the site locations and content learning standards. InTASC 3 ,7
• Estimate the impact of learning from experiential learning opportunities based on each site location. InTASC 3,8
• Construct a lesson plan that focuses on connecting standards to activities that incorporate higher level thinking skills. InTASC 4,5
• Justify the inclusion of these sites/locations/places into the current curriculum to theappropriate audience. InTASC 3,7,10